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This role is accountable for translating business priorities into executable sourcing and supply chain roadmaps that strengthen continuity of supply, improve cost competitiveness, reduce supplier and operational risk, and enable long-term business growth.\nThe Supply Chain Development Manager will own a portfolio of high-visibility, cross-functional programs from strategy development and business-case alignment through qualification, industrialization, safe launch, and stabilization. The successful candidate will establish program governance, align resources and priorities, drive timely decisions, and provide clear visibility to senior leadership on progress, risks, financial impact, and required actions.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop and execute supply-base diversification and supplier development strategies that translate product-line priorities, regional supply chain objectives, and long-term business needs into sequenced initiatives with defined outcomes.\nOwn a portfolio of complex supply chain programs, balancing priorities, resources, dependencies, and risk to achieve annual objectives related to material productivity, supply continuity, risk reduction, quality, and implementation timing.\nPartner with regional category managers and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize opportunities, validate assumptions and business cases, secure alignment in investment decisions, and track delivery of committed financial benefits.\nBuild integrated program roadmaps that define scope, milestones, decision gates, deliverables, dependencies, resource requirements, and critical-path activities.\nLead cross-functional teams across supply chain, category management, engineering, quality, manufacturing, operations, purchasing, testing, logistics, and other functions, aligning functional workstreams to shared program outcomes and resolving conflicting priorities.\nEstablish program governance, decision rights, ownership, escalation paths, and review cadences; hold stakeholders accountable for commitments and drive timely resolution of issues affecting cost, quality, supply, or schedule.\nLead supplier transitions, qualifications, and launch-readiness activities using defined readiness criteria and decision gates to confirm that technical, quality, capacity, packaging, logistics, documentation, and operational requirements are complete before implementation.\nProactively identify and assess program and supplier risks, quantify potential business impact, evaluate response scenarios, and lead structured mitigation or recovery plans through closure.\nMonitor portfolio and program performance against schedule, budget, savings, quality, and readiness commitments; identify material variances, determine root causes, and drive corrective actions or escalation when performance is off track.\nEnsure programs have appropriate resources, stakeholder engagement, and executive support to achieve objectives on time and with controlled risk.\nPrepare concise executive-level updates, dashboards, and decision materials that communicate program status, business impact, key risks, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.\nContribute to regional supplier-risk mitigation and resiliency planning by analyzing internal and external data, identifying exposure, and converting findings into actionable plans.\nPromote disciplined program-management practices, continuous improvement, and lessons learned across the Supply Chain Development organization.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Program Management, or a related field with 5-8 years of relevant experience; or a master's degree with 3-5 years of relevant experience.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in supply chain, supplier development, sourcing, manufacturing, engineering, operations, or a related environment, with accountability for decisions, risk management, implementation, and measurable business outcomes.\nAbility to apply program-management methods, including integrated planning, governance, milestone and dependency management, risk management, resource alignment, and executive reporting, to complex, cross-functional initiatives.\nDemonstrated knowledge of procurement and supplier-management processes, including supplier selection, qualification, transition, performance management, launch readiness, and the cross-functional controls required for implementation.\nAbility to analyze complex data, develop clear recommendations, and connect operational actions to financial and business outcomes.\nDemonstrated ability to create alignment without direct authority, resolve cross-functional conflict, influence decisions at multiple levels, and sustain accountability across diverse stakeholder groups.\nStrong leadership, communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present complex topics clearly to senior leaders and working teams.\nHigh degree of initiative, ownership, sound judgment, and comfort operating independently in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.\nExcellent organization, attention to detail, and follow-through, with a consistent focus on execution and measurable results.\nAdditional Information\nGiven the nature of the position, Otis Elevator does not support sponsorship, including H-1B or TN petitions/applications, for this position.\nIf you live in a city, chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day.\nOtis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2.4 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.4 million customer units worldwide, the industry's largest Service portfolio.\nYou may recognize our products in some of the world’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 72,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as factory and field technicians, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving, high-performance company.\nWhen you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. You’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions, and the skills and capabilities you’ll gain working alongside the best and brightest, keep us connected and on the cutting edge.\nWe provide opportunities, training, and resources, that build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride, through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.\nToday, our focus more than ever is on people. As a global, people-powered company, we put people - passengers, customers, and colleagues - at the center of everything we do. We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes - prioritizing Safety, Ethics, Quality in all that we do. If you would like to learn more about environmental, social and governance (ESG) at Otis click here.\nBecome a part of the Otis team and help us #Buildwhatsnext!\nOtis is An Equal Opportunity Employer. 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